MEPs to play musical chairs

MEPs no longer have to sit next to the same person in the hemicycle of the European Parliament.

Instead, they are free to choose their ‘next-door neighbour’.

Parliament Deputy Secretary-General Harald Romer has notified deputies that, due to the fact there are now 788 MEPs and observers (MPs from the accession countries) crammed into the chamber, “it will no longer be possible to allocate a specific seat to each”.

One member told EN: “It should make for some interesting observations – who likes who and who hates who?

“I’m kind of nostalgic about it, the guys around me had kind of grown on me…”

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